Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community. Includes image galleries.

Primarily non-fiction writing, but clicking on the "content type" box will take you to a page where you can select visual resources such as advertisements, comics and cartoons, and art.

Explore three pivotal decades in the struggle for civil rights in America through the eyes and work of sociologists, activists, psychologists, teachers, ministers, students and housewives. Includes several image galleries.

A guide from the University Archives that highlights notable African American graduates, student organizations, Project 500, and more.

Kennedy is a letterpress printer, papermaker, book artist, and teacher who addresses issues of race, freedom, and equality in his work.

Photographs, flyers, social media records, and more related to BSFR protests, walkouts, and educational events at the U of I.

Explore over 170 years of rich cultural history in Champaign County.

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States. His photographs — most intended to demonstrate the wretched conditions of African American schools in the south and to show how they could be improved — provide a unique view of southern education during the first half of the twentieth century.

The collection consists of the contents of a photographic album entitled "Portraits of Members," containing 117 photographs of men, women, and children, both singly and in groups. The album might have been used by clients in the studio to select the backdrop and props they wanted in their photographs. The majority of the subjects appear to be African-American. The photographs represent the work of Michael Francis Blake from the 1910s to his death in 1934.

A digital collection of over 300 images of African Americans dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, selected from the George and Huestis Cook Photograph Collection at the Valentine Richmond History Center.

James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920 is a database of approximately 5,000 pictures of African art published before 1921.

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

More than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries.

From the National Archives of the UK. Explore incredible photographs spanning over 100 years of African history, from the 1860s onwards, taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection (CO 1069). The full collection can be seen on Flickr, where you can add comments and tags.

Digitized items from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and more.

A unique insight into interactions between Indigenous Peoples in North America and European colonists from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. Includes image galleries, an artwork gallery, and images of the "Seeing Indian in Chicago" exhibition of 1985.

American West contains a wealth of visual material, including photographs, illustrations and paintings of Indigenous Peoples in North America. There are some examples in the collection of artwork and photographs from an Indigenous perspective but the majority of visual material is from a colonial source. Visual material including photographs, should be engaged with critically considering the possible motivations of their creator.

Photographs, drawings, engravings, lithographs, posters, and architectural drawings related to North American Indigenous communities.

More than 500,000 digitized assets, searchable and browsable by object type or cultural area.

Nearly 9,000 images related to Indigenous peoples. Also includes texts and audio files.

This website aims to present Chinese propaganda posters through virtual exhibitions, theme presentations and a web-database. It also provides additional information in the form of biographical notes of poster artists, resources, etc.

Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages. Search on Claude L. Pickens in VIA in Name and limit to the Harvard-Yenching Library.

The University of Chicago's project to facilitate the study of rare and fragile East Asian scrolls. The Scroll Archive can be searched by title, artist, historical period, and museum collection. These include scrolling to left and right, zooming in and out and movement up, down and side to side. Contributing institutions include the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

From the University of Bristol, the digitized Historical Photographs of China collection consists of over 9,000 images.

An older website from the Nagasaki University Library, users may search the collection of approximately 7,000 photographs by photographer, keyword, or location.

511 black and white images from the Morning Calm Weekly Newspaper Installation Management Command, U.S. Army. Hosted on Flickr.

From Duke University. Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932, and 600 lantern slides.

Digitized lantern slides from 19th century Japanese photographer T. Enami, hosted on Flickr.

The Tibet Album website provides access to more than 6000 photographs spanning thirty years of Tibet's history. The photographs featured in this site therefore reflect the topography of the routes used by the British to reach the capital of Tibet (Lhasa) from the Indian side of the Himalayas and are concentrated in south and central Tibet.

Approximately 1500 magic lantern slides from the UHM Collection, gifted by donors Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai and the family of Reverend Takie Okumura.

The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China.

Virtual Shanghai is part of the IAO-Databases Project and contains 4,000 images (mostly before 1949). The images contain basic metadata (often including a short description).

Collections include historical photographs that document the history of the Zionist movement and the development of the Jewish community in Israel over the past century; images documenting everyday Israeli life over the past 50 years, including contemporary Israel; photographs of Jewish life in the Galilee, especially kibbutzim; photographs documenting Israeli theatrical, dance and music performances; and posters and ephemera documenting Jewish life in the Diaspora and in Israel.

Collections Search currently includes 252,403 records, including over 37,000 images and nearly 10,000 video recordings.

From Professor Emeritus Charles S. Rhyne of Reed College, this site offers numerous photographs of Mayan cities. Images are browsable, but not searchable.

Contains neatly 6,000 pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Digital collections developed by the Cuban Heritage Collection documenting Cuba and the Cuban diaspora from colonial times to the present. These materials include rare books and journals, as well as archival materials including documents, correspondence, photographs, maps, scrapbooks, audio, video, and oral histories.

750 photographs of every-day life in the Soviet Union (1919-1921 and 1930) from the papers of Robert L. Eichelberger and Frank Whitson Fetter.

Photographs from William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, depicting the wooden architecture of the Russian North.

800 images of Russia and the central Caucasus including the Republic of Georgia and Dagestan.

Posters from the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to June 26, 1855) The collection includes 263 salted paper and albumen prints.

A collection of 20th century Russian posters spans almost the entire history of the Soviet Union.

Stalinka is an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism. The collection comprises visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc.

This collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893.

The Arab Images Foundation ® is a not for profit organization dedicated to the safeguarding of modern and contemporary visual arts in the Arab world, and has done important work in the field of civil society development by highlighting the daily life of local populations in the Middle East and North Africa.

The visual core of the collection consists of approximately 7000 photographs of works of architecture, pilgrimage locales and domestic life taken in India and Sri Lanka by Professor Robert D. “Scotty” MacDougall (1940-1987), an anthropologist and an architect.

Images are organized into collections, such as the Hensley Photo Library and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Images are from the University of Chicago. This site is difficult to browse and search, but images are high quality.

Expedition photographs from the ISAC's activities in the 1930s. The digital collection features about 1% of total holdings.

The Mary Binney Wheeler collection of photographic slides is one of the largest individual collections of its kind in the United States. Amassed over the course of fourteen trips to India and Sri Lanka, the collection provides us with over 9,000 images of an astounding diversity of people, places, and events from nearly every corner of the Indian Subcontinent.

This collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine from 1898 to 1946.

Nearly 70,000 photographs of Tibet and the Himalayas, many with links to maps. The archives also includes some video.

Over 400 photographic prints dating primarily to the second half of the nineteenth century. At this time, the spread of the art of photography and the influx of Europeans into the lands of the Middle East led to the creation of a large number of photographs produced by professional photographers.